Altium Viewer no longer supported?

I see 9.3

Oh and it can view the summer 09 release files.

Which hemisphere would that be?

Cheers

But only those, Its the same old same old. Quote from the FAQ:

"The latest summer 09 release of Altium Designer Viewer (Build

9.3.0.19153) can view design files created in the summer 09 release of Altium Designer, as well as the winter 09 and summer 08 releases of Altium Designer, Altium Designer 6, Altium Designer 2004 and DXP. Files from Protel 99 SE and earlier products are not supported".

I think they are in Australia :-)

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Am 19.02.2013 04:17, schrieb Joerg:

Methinks I have seen it last week. They are just rolling out the 2013 version of the Altium Designer and seem to be plowing the entire website. Quite a mess.

I was unable to download the full 2013 version last weekend, got only parts of the file. I can make .pdfs if that helps (with the version as delivered in DEC 2012)

regards, Gerhard

ps yes, the web release goes only until winter '09.

(Your customer could write it out in 2009 format, probably not much loss)

It sure is a mess there :-)

They should learn how to _first_ create a majorly revamped site on a dummy server and _after_ it's all tested transfer that in one fell swoop.

Thanks, but I can't use PDF files, I need a viewer.

Maybe they could but I'll just use the Gerbers then. That is often the only useful format to work with. Unfortunately most of the Gerber Viewers have no transparent layer view so I am constantly hiding and unhiding planes.

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gerbv does.

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The old ones used Southern hemisphere seasons, but last I looked Shanghai is still located in the Northern hemisphere.

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I know, but it will only run under Linux. Had it in a VM for a while until Ubunutu in there self-destructed.

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Yup, and that transition might not bode so well when it comes to such support.

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It says on

that there's a windows version.

No idea how well this works, as I'm on Debian.

Mostly those require solid programmer know-how (which I don't have), plus tools, cement mixer, hammer drill and so on.

I'll look for a new tool that can also do odb+, since they can generate that.

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There was a Cygwin version at one point. Dunno if it still exists. (Chalk up one vote for Cygwin, btw--I use it all the time.)

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Try gerbv. They do a transparent sort of mode. I think it is similar to an XOR of the colors if that is close enough. It may be an add of the color numbers with saturation? It is like transparent if you pick your colors properly. They do have a "proper" XOR which is in fast mode.

The support isn't as good for Windows as it is for Linux, but it has gotten a lot better the last few years.

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Rick

What? I've been running gerbv for a number of years now and I don't do the gcc thing. gerbv has a standard windows .exe download with self install, no?

gerbv also has "object" view where you can click on a Gerber feature and it will show you the code that produces it. At this point it is my "goto" Gerber viewer.

Thanks to the gEDA guys!

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Rick

AFAICT it doesn't.

Quote "Gerbv is targeted to run on Linux and other unix variants".

It would have been my favorite as well, it was the only thing I liked about the gEDA collection. And I liked Gerbv a lot because of the transparent view. But, not enough to repair all this VM+Ubuntu stuff after Ubuntu had self-destructed for some reason. Maybe because the orange penguin looked a bit sickly :-)

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try the download page:

16 megabytes of something, that size is about right for gerbv ( + gtk + cairo , its dependancies )

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Oh, I must have installed Linux on my laptop when I was sleeping or something. You *aren't* looking in the right place. I know, I know, they don't update the page and in general don't care much for Windows users, but the tool is good *and* it has fairly good support under Windows now. I'm not online so I can't tell you where to find it, but do some google searching and you will find a Windows installation file in .exe form. My last copy is dated 6-2012. I can post it on my web site if you want. It is 15 MB, rev 2.6.0.

Get your head out of your butt and find the durn program. Ok?

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Rick

Haha, been using it 10 years and never knew that. You can delete things too!

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Thanks, Jasen. I downloaded it and when there is some time I'll install and take a look. If it's anywhere as good as the Linux version two years ago it'll be a keeper.

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